Electro-analytical investigation of potential induced degradation in mc-silicon solar cells: case of sodium ion induced inductive loop
| Autor: | Brijesh Tripathi, Deepak Verma, Zeel Purohit |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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010302 applied physics
Materials science Silicon Sodium Photovoltaic system Analytical chemistry General Physics and Astronomy chemistry.chemical_element High voltage 02 engineering and technology 021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology Potential induced degradation 01 natural sciences Ion chemistry 0103 physical sciences Physical and Theoretical Chemistry 0210 nano-technology Negative impedance converter Voltage |
| Zdroj: | Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 20:19168-19176 |
| ISSN: | 1463-9084 1463-9076 |
| DOI: | 10.1039/c8cp02703j |
| Popis: | Potential induced degradation of the shunt type (PID-s) in multi-crystalline silicon (mc-Si) solar cells is becoming critical for performance reduction of solar panels in large scale photovoltaic (PV) power plants. In this article PID-s has been investigated by applying high voltage stress on mc-Si solar cells for their degradation and recovery and results have been explained on the basis of DC and AC characterization. The efficiency decreases drastically from 15.7% to 2.9% due to a high voltage stress of -800 V at 85 °C for 48 hours, which is attributed to a reduction in shunt resistance and an increase in depletion and diffusion capacitances. The reduction in electrical performance due to PID-s has been further explained by morphological, structural and elemental analysis. Observed negative capacitance behaviour in impedance spectra of mc-Si solar cells after PID-s has been attributed to structural deformation caused by potential induced migration of sodium ions (Na+) into mc-Si. The structural deformation induced by potential induced migration of Na+ ions has been confirmed by using non-destructive and lattice strain sensitive micro-Raman spectroscopy. The obtained experimental results have been correlated with existing theoretical understanding of p-n junction solar cells to explain the consequences of PID-s. |
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